In 1899, as a young English woman of 20, Charlotte Carter finds herself in love with a soldier who is sent over to fight in the second Boer War. Desperate not to lose him she secures a job as a nurse in one of the camps. She has been sheltered all of her life from the true cause of the fighting over in South Africa and, in turn, equally unaware of what kind of 'camp' she finds herself working in. Hearts will break and tears will fall but ultimately what will reveal the heart of the empire? How will she try to fix it?
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Prologue

9th April 1899
My darling Charlotte,
I write to you tonight in great haste and frustration. I have
thought for what seems like a eternity in hope that I may be able
to put my thoughts into words and compose those sentences onto
this page. It has proven to be pain-staking and irrevicably
arduous but the time has befallen on me. I know I must write to
you now or I should not have the opportnity to do so for an
eternity. Charlotte, my dear Charlotte, time has proven to be
something more of dreams than reality. Should time not have
escaped me so, I should have done the very thing I thought to do
long ago, though, we are young, time, in this way, is in our
favour. I should be cruel tomorrow, your father has permitted me
so. Should I return, my darling, you shall be my hopeful
eternity, more so than now. My beloved, time, the blasted thing,
has put forth a new challenge. I have been summoned to South
Africa, much like father was before me, to fight the dreaded
Boers. We depart in two days time. I hope I will lay my eyes upon
your angelic face, place my strong hands into your light hair and
meet your gracious lips with mine, for which I hope will not be
the last time but for the beginning of our eternity, by the ship
in two days. My love for you is eternal.
I am yours,
Edward King